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  Four strange COVID symptoms Well over two years into the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of COVID cases continue to be recorded around the world every day. With the rise of new variants, the symptoms of COVID have also evolved. Initially, the NHS regarded a fever, cough, and loss or change in sense of smell or taste as the main symptoms which could indicate COVID infection. Now, recently updated NHS guidance suggests also looking out for symptoms including a sore throat, blocked or runny nose, and a headache. But what about some of the more obscure signs and symptoms? From skin lesions to hearing loss, emerging data is increasingly showing us that COVID symptoms can go beyond what you might expect from a regular cold or a flu. 1. Skin lesions COVID-related skin complaints are not uncommon. In fact, a UK study published in 2021 found that one in five patients only exhibited a rash and no other symptom. COVID can affect the skin in a variety of ways . Some people may exp

  Two young men sit facing each other on a marble terrace. Email Two young men sit facing each other on a marble terrace. They are wearing elegant robes in pastel shades and delicate floral patterns, matching turbans, and finely worked daggers tucked prominently into the sashes at their waists. The one on the left, evidently the host, also boasts a light-green, gold-embroidered overcoat with a fur collar and a black aigrette adorning his turban. He reclines against a large bolster of gold fabric with a pattern of pink damask roses, and is being fanned by a younger attendant with a peacock feather fan. The two men are looking at each other intently, just a hint of a smile playing around their lips. The art of Mughal India is best appreciated with all the senses | Psyche Ideas

  The World’s Largest Bee and the Cautionary Tale of Its Rediscovery by Oliver Milman Megachile pluto is the world’s largest bee, coming in approximately four times times larger than a European honey bee (composite image). Clay Bolt/ claybolt.com/Re:wild While working as a curatorial assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, Eli Wyman learned about a very unusual bee that was presumed to be extinct. The bee, Megachile pluto , also known as Wallace’s giant bee, is a massive unit. It is the largest bee in the world, four times larger than a honeybee and measuring about the length of a human thumb. Huge mandibles hang like dastardly garden shears from its head. Or, at least, did—the bee hadn’t been seen alive since 1981 and was feared lost. “I just thought ‘someday I’ve got to go to look for this bee.’ It’s a sort of unicorn in the bee world,” Wyman says. “If you love bees, as I do,” he added, “this is the greatest

The doctrine of peace is also clearly indicated in the Hadith, the collection of various Traditions of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as narrated by his various companions. There are about 20,000 such Traditions of the Prophet and a number of these contain the ethics of peace. These have a two fold significance for the study of peace in Islamic tradition. First, these offer additional facts about peace in the Islamic culture; secondly, these contain a more exhaustive explanation of the various traditions of Islam as revealed through the Qur’ân. The Hadith contains a number of extremely unequivocal confirmation of the doctrine of peace in the religio-cultural traditions of Islam. It has been narrated by Ibn-i-Omar that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said that  “one who helps violence and promotes or seek help to promote tyranny (violence) is forever under the wrath of God”. This unqualified condemnation of violence is an incontrovertible testimony to the existence of an ethic of peace in Islam. Where